we all have 'em. those tiny, insignificant battles of opinion that you’ll stubbornly defend to your last breath, even though they literally do not matter one bit. i’m talking about the truly petty stuff. like, i firmly believe that cereal is a soup. fight me.
Where I live there are two official languages, the one from the country, Spanish, and the one from the region, Valencian, so you have places and streets named in one and translated into the other and both are valid. Some important places have only one official name in Valencian.
Well there is a huge historical railroad station called Estación del Norte (North Station) that people called it by translating it into Valencian, and now the official name is Estació del Nord.
The thing is that the station was never located on the north of anything in the city, it is called Norte because that’s how it was called the company that built it.
Making the translation official not only increases the confusion about its location for people who doesn’t know the city, but it also hides its history, I know a lot of people living here that don’t know where the name came from and who build it.
I don’t have issues with making official naming in Valencian as long it does not change the name of a person or company.
I’m fine with language evolving over time, but I reject “literally” being used to mean “figuratively”. Distinguishing figurative from literal is, literally, the word’s one job. Take that away, and the word literally doesn’t mean anything but a generic intensifier. There literally isn’t another word that fulfills that disambiguating purpose, this semantic drift only decreases clarity.
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Whoever told you that was incorrect. Literally means the plain textbook definition of the words written, as opposed to euphemism or metaphor. If I say “I would literally die on this hill”, it means that there is an actual large mound of dirt that I am willing to lose my life on.
Any other interpretation is literally incorrect.
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Funny way to act if you’re not interested in a debate.
I’m not interested in a debate either, so i won’t be responding.
I did appreciate your contribution. Since you verified it for yourself, though, it would have been nice if you linked your source.
Family member said, while in the passenger seat, “I’m so freaking hot because I’m literally in the sun”
I’m thinking about it, and I think they might be right. Sunbeams are a part of the sun, albeit mingled with atmosphere. If they were in direct line of the sun, i could consider them technically, literally, correct.
It all depends on whether you consider an object bathed in the radiance of something to be “in” that thing, but I’m kinda inclined to consider that.
There’s a few things here. In the sun vs in the sunlight/rays. The window being rolled up.
I took it as then being inside of the sun.
“I am literally in the sun”
gifis pronounced like “gift” without the “t”I don’t care about the initial sounds of the words in “graphics interchange format”
I think the creator was either trolling, failed at being clever (“choosy moms…”), or is an idiot.
Aren’t the initial sounds exactly why you’re right? Like I thought that was the main reason people think the creator is wrong…
Yeah, I mean it isn’t j raphical interchange format.
NASA and SCUBA are two acronyms that show acronyms clearly don’t have to be pronounced like their source words as a rule.
No one pronounces “JPEG” with a ph sound, though.
Yeah, and the word starts with the letter ghee.
Funnily enough, that’s a type of butter pronounced with a hard g.
Regardless of being correct, there’s already a format called JIF so that’d be dumb anyways.
If you don’t consistently return shopping carts to their corrals you’re a turd.
This is one that makes me irrationally angry. If I see someone do this, I’ll return it for them while I stare daggers at them. It’s probably immature, but I don’t give a fuck. People who do shit like this are usually contemptuous shitbags.
Quintin Tarantino is a hack.
Other than Pulp Fiction, none of his movies any good.
I watched some episodes (short films?) of the Japanese show about a woman prisoner. “Bad bitch” persona. And she like kicks ass and is super stoic.
Every one I watched looked like a Tarantino film.
He straight up appropriated his style from a Japanese king fu franchise. And the music style with it.
“Female prisoner scorpion”
Vengeance plot.
Over the top villains.
What he is known for. Here’s a bit for you to compare.
I don’t want any “smart” crap in my house, I don’t want my appliances to be connected to the internet and to be controlled by an app, it should all be self sufficient.
And if you really want to add the option to be controlled remotely (but should not be the only way) make it a local connection, why should my phone connect to the internet to turn on an AC located three meters away?
Just because LED’s are ridiculously efficient, doesn’t mean the appliances you build should run them with the power of 1000 suns.
nor should they be piercing blue or green and fuck up the way my room looks in the dark
(at least the angry dishwasher man agrees with me on this)
Please stop
what’s going on here?
My guess, bot posting/karma farming
lol people really think they’ll be able to make money off of lemmy posts. lmao
People who defend “they’re” as some form of grammatical purity. It’s a fucking contraction, basically the printing press version of an emoji. Stop with the pretentious bullshit.
You mean when someone uses “their” in place of “they’re”? I’m confused what you’re yelling about.
Can you explain further
Escalators and moving walkways are there to get you somewhere faster and with less effort. They are not meant to ferry your fat ass the entire way. That’s what elevators and carts are for. Move it!!!
This one’s actually wrong tho lol, they were literally invented to do just that
As long as they stay to the right I don’t care that much
I’m not sure if this is insignificant, due to how people pay, but diamonds are a waste of money. And the people that pay for them are rubes.
Man-made stones are better and cheaper, and they have been for a while now.
Plus blood diamonds. What kind of garbage person walks around with a rock on their hand that came from horror and pain?
Why would that be a symbol of love ?
Also diamonds are ugly. Sure they sparkle. But they are usually clear.
Opals are way more interesting.
A liquid isn’t milk if it didn’t pass through a nipple. Soy, oat, almond… they’re OK, but they’re not milk.
I believe platypuses (platypi?) and/or echidnas don’t have nipples but instead sweat out milk. Doesn’t that count as milk then?
With no teats, the milk is released through pores in the skin from which the young lap it up in her fur
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platypus -> ecology -> reproduction
that absolutely should not count as milk and I’m upset that I’m now cursed with this knowledge
Fun fact! The word milk has been used for plant-based liquids and saps since at least the 14th century.
Die away upon your hill, but historical and popular usage disagree with you :P
What about crop milk? Or milk of magnesia?
Hope scientists prove you wrong one day. Discovery of almond titties are a Nobel prize waiting to happen.
*raises hand lactose intolerantly* can we make it cost less if we give up the “-milk” label?
As a fellow lactose intolerant who was raised on soy “milk”, I say it should be cheaper just by virtue of how horrible it is.
You didn’t specify a biological nipple.
I can make any kind of milk pass through some type of nipple.
It’t tomato no tomato. Sheesh, do you English much?
No I dot’t English much.
That one hook on the key hanger is mine, and I will keep moving my GF’s keys to the next one every afternoon until she learns.
Cutlery with a circular handle have the worst feels
